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The media and ideas easily trick us into
believing that we can find true and lasting

happiness through material trappings. The
pressures we experience confuse us and

disguise the pathway to happiness. Our
attachment to an ideal body image can
lead us to a path of manipulation, often

placing the body at risk and creating a
perception of unhappiness.

When we engage in further self-study and
dial our inner vision into focus, we are able

to clearly see that the objects and situations
we initially desired ultimately become the

source of misery. It is due to these vestiges
of living that the attainment of happiness
can easily elude us. Rather than thinking

about what happiness is supposed to be,
what we really need is to be taught to

identify what happiness feels like. stress rather than peace and solitude.

To increase our potential level of What if you stop and ask your mind, “Can

happiness, it is important to partake in we be still and quiet for just a moment?”
daily practices that help to remind us

that we are always connected to a greater Here is something you can try:
energy. This in turn helps us to be in a
continual state of trust. Here we find it Stop whatever you are doing. Turn your

easier to accept the present and place less phone off for a few minutes and free your
importance on a perception of what is arms. Perhaps jump up and down and let

right or wrong. the body shake out in no particular way.
Maybe your voice wants to make noise.
All it takes in any given moment is a

small, simple, little suggestion. Say you Now stand where you are and become
are out walking on a path, there are perfectly still. Close your eyes. Connect

people passing you on bicycles, your to the vastness of infinite space.
phone rings, and for a split second you Instantaneously you are able to tune
sense your morning walk is creating into the sounds of birds and insects. Feel

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